Some of the cool tools for creativity can be used in the classroom to directly enhance lessons and other topics covered in class. Other creativity cool tools, including those under the thinking tools category, are designed to increase the student’s creativity, ability to reason, think analytically and to think out of the box. These resources include several games that teach children to interact with the environment in order to solve a problem. These games cannot be used directly to enhance a lesson, but help increase a student’s creativity. When you look at Bloom’s Taxonomy, students are constantly being asked to remember, understand and apply. Other cognitive process dimensions, such as analyze, evaluate and create are used less often in the classroom. You can use these thinking tools to strengthen the student’s ability to use these cognitive processes. The games to enhance Piaget’s third and fourth stages of cognitive development. Abstract thinking, hypothetical and deductive reasoning are all being enhanced with these thinking tools. The resources that help children solve their own problems can be used in class. By teaching children to use these resources, you can train to find creative ways of solving their own problems. It also trains kids to work together to help solve other people’s problems. In life there will not always be a teacher or a parent around to solve every problem the students may face. By using this resource to help them develop creative ways of solving problems the students will be able transfer the skills learned from these tools and use them develop creative problem solving techniques for the future. The teacher can use these resources in a lesson plan. You can give the students a problem to solve these resources can serve as a guide to solve the problem. The teacher can also use Diffen to help train students to compare two things. All of the resources in the thinking tools work best for secondary. They work best in strengthen the student’s ability to think. I do not see these tools being very useful on the secondary level. Much like the thinking tools, many of the tools in the Games section of the creativity tools work best to enhance the student’s ability to think. All of the puzzles, trivia, jigsaws and logic puzzles are hard to link to a lesson. The websites that feel can best be linked to a lesson are those that allow the teacher to create trivia games, diagrams and activities for a class. The teacher can use these programs to assess the student’s knowledge in a topic. The games that increase motor skills and can be problem-solving abilities can be used in a lesson. Some of the games are easier to use in lessons than others. The games that use math and physics can be used to strengthen lessons learned in class. The problem with the majority of the games in this section is they are not customizable. It is easier and more practical to center a learning activity on a lesson. These most of these games would require you to center the lesson around the game. Since most of the games are really hard to focus a lesson around, they are best used to strength the student’s creativity, cognitive ability and ability to learn. The creative tools under the simulation category can be used for physics or math class. The program Golemgame is fully customizable and the students can use the programs to simulate what ever experiment they wish. For instance, a physics class can use the program to design a catapult. The program can simulate the launch of a catapult and the students can use the date from the simulations to calculate the arc of the projectile launched by the catapult. They can use the simulation to design the best catapult and then create a real life model of the machine. Another experiment that students could use this program for is determining how changing the size of the tires affects the speed, distance traveled and acceleration of the car. Unlike the thinking tools and the games, since these programs are fully customizable the teacher can use the resources to help enhance a lesson. Other tools such as the animation tools can be used for a science class. There are programs that easily allow children to create stop motion animation. This would be amazing for a science class. You could teach the kids how blood is pumped through the heart and to help them understand the topic, they could use this stop motion animation program to come up with a fun video using paper or clay to make a stop motion demonstration of how blood goes through the hear. This process is hard to display in the form of a diagram or a picture because the process is constantly changing. This stop motion animation program is a way to allow children to have fun and spark their creativity, at the same time they are applying what they learned from their science class. There are several animation programs which are similar in that they offer a way that kids can show what they learned and be creative in the process. Most presentations in school consist of posters or a power point project. This offers them something different.
Some of the cool tools for creativity can be used in the classroom to directly enhance lessons and other topics covered in class. Other creativity cool tools, including those under the thinking tools category, are designed to increase the student’s creativity, ability to reason, think analytically and to think out of the box. These resources include several games that teach children to interact with the environment in order to solve a problem. These games cannot be used directly to enhance a lesson, but help increase a student’s creativity. When you look at Bloom’s Taxonomy, students are constantly being asked to remember, understand and apply. Other cognitive process dimensions, such as analyze, evaluate and create are used less often in the classroom. You can use these thinking tools to strengthen the student’s ability to use these cognitive processes. The games to enhance Piaget’s third and fourth stages of cognitive development. Abstract thinking, hypothetical and deductive reasoning are all being enhanced with these thinking tools.
The resources that help children solve their own problems can be used in class. By teaching children to use these resources, you can train to find creative ways of solving their own problems. It also trains kids to work together to help solve other people’s problems. In life there will not always be a teacher or a parent around to solve every problem the students may face. By using this resource to help them develop creative ways of solving problems the students will be able transfer the skills learned from these tools and use them develop creative problem solving techniques for the future. The teacher can use these resources in a lesson plan. You can give the students a problem to solve these resources can serve as a guide to solve the problem. The teacher can also use Diffen to help train students to compare two things. All of the resources in the thinking tools work best for secondary. They work best in strengthen the student’s ability to think. I do not see these tools being very useful on the secondary level.
Much like the thinking tools, many of the tools in the Games section of the creativity tools work best to enhance the student’s ability to think. All of the puzzles, trivia, jigsaws and logic puzzles are hard to link to a lesson. The websites that feel can best be linked to a lesson are those that allow the teacher to create trivia games, diagrams and activities for a class. The teacher can use these programs to assess the student’s knowledge in a topic. The games that increase motor skills and can be problem-solving abilities can be used in a lesson. Some of the games are easier to use in lessons than others. The games that use math and physics can be used to strengthen lessons learned in class. The problem with the majority of the games in this section is they are not customizable. It is easier and more practical to center a learning activity on a lesson. These most of these games would require you to center the lesson around the game. Since most of the games are really hard to focus a lesson around, they are best used to strength the student’s creativity, cognitive ability and ability to learn.
The creative tools under the simulation category can be used for physics or math class. The program Golemgame is fully customizable and the students can use the programs to simulate what ever experiment they wish. For instance, a physics class can use the program to design a catapult. The program can simulate the launch of a catapult and the students can use the date from the simulations to calculate the arc of the projectile launched by the catapult. They can use the simulation to design the best catapult and then create a real life model of the machine. Another experiment that students could use this program for is determining how changing the size of the tires affects the speed, distance traveled and acceleration of the car. Unlike the thinking tools and the games, since these programs are fully customizable the teacher can use the resources to help enhance a lesson.
Other tools such as the animation tools can be used for a science class. There are programs that easily allow children to create stop motion animation. This would be amazing for a science class. You could teach the kids how blood is pumped through the heart and to help them understand the topic, they could use this stop motion animation program to come up with a fun video using paper or clay to make a stop motion demonstration of how blood goes through the hear. This process is hard to display in the form of a diagram or a picture because the process is constantly changing. This stop motion animation program is a way to allow children to have fun and spark their creativity, at the same time they are applying what they learned from their science class. There are several animation programs which are similar in that they offer a way that kids can show what they learned and be creative in the process. Most presentations in school consist of posters or a power point project. This offers them something different.